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Being Prez

The Life and Music of Lester Young

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Being Prez

The Life and Music of Lester Young

By: Dave Gelly

Lester Young was one of the great jazz masters, and his impact on the course of the art form was profound. He fundamentally changed the way the saxophone was played--his long, flowing lines brought new levels of expressiveness and subtlety to the jazz language, setting the standard for all modern players. In Being Prez, renowned British critic Dave Gelly follows Lester Young through his life in a rapidly changing world, showing how the music of this exceptionally sensitive man was shaped by his experiences. The reader meets a complicated, vulnerable, gentle individual who was brought up in his father's traveling carnival band. His early career was spent in the nightclubs and dancehalls of Kansas City and the Southwest, and he made his landmark recording debut at the peak of the Swing Era. But at the height of his powers, he was drafted into the US Army, where racism and his own unworldliness landed him in military prison. Following these events, Young grew increasingly withdrawn and suspicious, changes in his character reflected in the darkening mood of his music. Gelly, himself a jazz saxophonist, examines many of Young's classic recordings in illuminating detail. He reveals how as a saxophonist--and as major contributor to the Count Basie band--Young created a strong personal voice, a cool modernism, and a new rhythmic flexibility in the freely dancing rhythms of 4-beat swing. With his sax jutting oddly to one side, his bizarre oblique use of language, and his unique musical rapport with Billie Holiday (who famously nicknamed him "Prez"), Lester Young has become an icon and a cult figure. This marvelous biography illuminates the life and work of this giant of jazz.

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Oxford University Press

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019977479X

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30-Second Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, each Explained in Half a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

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30-Second Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, each Explained in Half a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging the way that popular music should be. For non-aficionados, it can be slippery and difficult to grasp: without familiar forms or a hard-and-fast format, and largely ruled by improvisation, jazz leaves the novice baffled, not sure how to listen, and asking how is it that they know what to play? 30-Second Jazz explains, in easy, short riffs that keep you engaged, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to todays global mix of musicians and styles. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style, and instruments of jazz, at key personalities and recordings in the jazz canon and at what might be expected next from this most diverse of musical forms.

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Ivy Press

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1782403728

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9781782403722

Django Reinhardt

Know the Man, Play the Music

By: Dave Gelly

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Django Reinhardt

Know the Man, Play the Music

By: Dave Gelly

The music of Django Reinhardt is as important today as it has ever been. Blending jazz and gypsy influences, his exuberant solos and incisive rhythm playing have fascinated – and tantalized – guitarists for half a century. In this book, leading jazz writer Dave Gelly considers Django's life and recordings and explains exactly why he sounded the way he did. Meanwhile, guitarist and teacher Rod Fogg shows you how you can achieve that sound yourself, with the help of detailed transcriptions of six of Django's most celebrated and exciting numbers. Includes audio wth all six numbers accurately recorded from the transcriptions for you to follow along.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1476852944

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Know It All Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

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Know It All Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

For non-aficionados, jazz can be slippery and difficult to grasp. Jazz can leave a novice baffled, unsure how to listen, and with the question “How is it that they know what to play?” Know-It-All Jazz takes readers from the African-American roots and all the way to the global mix of styles and performers in today’s jazz scene. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style, and instruments of the discipline, key personalities and recordings in the jazz canon, and, finally, at what might be expected next from this most diverse of musical forms. Punchy and engaging entries help readers understand the basics in under a minute, ensuring that this is the ultimate companion for newcomers to the instinctive and diverse world of jazz. The Know It All series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about the subjects you really feel you should understand but have never gotten around to studying. Each book selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in under a minute. Other titles in this series include: Know It All Anthropology, Know It All Chemistry, Know It All Classical Music, Know It All Energy, Know It All Fashion, Know It All Great Inventions, Know It All Medicine, Know It All Shakespeare, Know It All Whiskey, Know It All Wine, Space In 30 Seconds, Sports in 30 Seconds.

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160

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Wellfleet Press

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0760361215

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9780760361214

Fun With Scrabble Homonyms and Beyond: Guide to Pronunciation

By: Prof. Dave La. Cash

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Fun With Scrabble Homonyms and Beyond: Guide to Pronunciation

By: Prof. Dave La. Cash

I came up with this idea upon noticing the Scrabble dictionaries did not have the pronunciations so I thought of making it into a fun book and at the same time helping the reader/player recall certain words such as blagging, cwm, mux, offal, stonking, and woopie, including my attempt at using them in the same sentence. With over 2,000 sets of homonyms and more than 5,000 words, I also have bonuses at the end of the book to add some more fun.

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Lulu.com

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1483441342

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9781483441344

Community & the human spirit

Oral histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown & Goose Village

By: Dave Flavell

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Community & the human spirit

Oral histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown & Goose Village

By: Dave Flavell

Preview Edition: A solid contribution to social and urban studies, this fascinating collection of oral histories details the life and times in Canada's "cradle of industrialization.". Contributors to this book were all born between the 1920s and 1950s and remember growing up around the east end of the Lachine Canal near the Montreal harbour. It was a time when ships from far away places still navigated the canal and this historic working-class area hummed with the sounds of factories. Families were often large and the streets teemed with children. These oral histories follow contributors' lives to the present day. The book also discusses the redevelopment and evolution of the area. Well-researched and well-illustrated with archival and family photos, with bibliography, and an introduction by the author. 372 pages, softcover.

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Petra Books

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192703213X

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Oral histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown & Goose Village

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Oral histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown & Goose Village

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Icons of Jazz

By: Dave Gelly

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Icons of Jazz

By: Dave Gelly

In celebration of the first hundred years of jazz, Icons of Jazz presents a selection of representatives from all aspects of the genre: the New Orleans and Dixieland of the first two decades of the 20th century; the swing and jump jive of the 1920s and 1930s; bebop and its legacy of the 1940s and 1950s; the free jazz of the 1960s; jazz-rock from the 1970s; and the melting pot that was jazz in the 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Each entry includes details of the life and work of the artist or band concerned, recommends essential recordings, and is illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs."--

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1840441429

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Being Prez

The Life and Music of Lester Young

By: Dave Gelly

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The Life and Music of Lester Young

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Oxford University Press

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0190450495

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Icons of Jazz

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Know It All Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

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The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Under a Minute

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30-Second Jazz

The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics, Each Explained in Half a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

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30-Second Jazz

The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics, Each Explained in Half a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

For its initiates, jazz is instinctive and engaging--the way that popular music should be. For non-aficionados, it can be slippery and difficult to grasp: without familiar forms or a hard-and-fast format, and largely ruled by improvisation, jazz leaves the novice baffled, not sure how to listen, and asking "how is it that they know what to play?" 30-Second Jazz explains, in easy, short riffs that keep you engaged, taking readers from the African-American roots of jazz all the way to today's global mix of musicians and styles. Along the way, it looks at the shape, style, and instruments of jazz, at key personalities and recordings in the jazz canon--and at what might be expected next from this most diverse of musical forms.

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1782407537

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9781782407539

30-Second Jazz

The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Half a Minute

By: Dave Gelly

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The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles, and Performers, Each Explained in Half a Minute

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1782403094

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Django Reinhardt

Know the Man, Play the Music

By: Dave Gelly

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1476852944

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Masters Of Jazz Saxophone

The Story Of The Players And Their Music

By: Dave Gelly

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Masters Of Jazz Saxophone

The Story Of The Players And Their Music

By: Dave Gelly

This most detailed & revealing survey of jazz saxophonists (sax) begins with early 20th-century origins & continues to the latest musicians on the worldwide scene. Offers clear analysis, probing into the vibrant world of jazz sax players & their music. Includes essays by noted jazz critics on the breakthrough of the sax, swing music, bebop, the cool sound, the honkers & screamers, the hard boppers, soul sax, the modalists, the post-bop individualists, free jazz, fusion, crossover & smooth jazz, the new swing, contemporary traditionalists, the future of jazz sax, & recommended listening. Profiles of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, & Michael Brecker. Beautiful illustrations.

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075678011X

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Book's by Dave Gelly

Being Prez

Being Prez

30-Second Jazz

30-Second Jazz

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Know It All Jazz

Know It All Jazz

Fun With Scrabble Homonyms and Beyond: Guide to Pronunciation

Fun With Scrabble Homonyms and Beyond: Guide to Pronunciation

Community & the human spirit

Community & the human spirit

Community & the human spirit PREVIEW EDITION

Community & the human spirit PREVIEW EDITION

Icons of Jazz

Icons of Jazz

Being Prez

Being Prez

Icons of Jazz

Icons of Jazz

Know It All Jazz

Know It All Jazz

30-Second Jazz

30-Second Jazz

30-Second Jazz

30-Second Jazz

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Masters Of Jazz Saxophone

Masters Of Jazz Saxophone

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